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HARRISBURG — With his tenure ending next week, state Attorney General Bruce Beemer has settled a lingering issue with the controversial probe of porn emails found on state agency servers.

He announced an agreement Wednesday to pay a Washington, D.C., law firm a final sum of $1.4 million for work done reviewing thousands of emails considered pornographic or offensive. The firm of BuckleySander LLP already received $385,000 and sought a $1.8 million final payment.

“We did what we thought was in the best interest of the office,” Beemer said about the settlement.

Attorney Doug Gansler with BuckleySander said it’s not unusual to negotiate a bill when a client is a government agency.

This email probe, launched by Beemer’s predecessor Kathleen Kane in 2015, led to an ethics review for several unnamed judges mentioned in a report issued last November. The report flagged 13 senior state government officials or judges as high-volume senders of “inappropriate” emails.

Beemer, a Clarks Summit native and Democrat, spoke with reporters about his five-month appointive stint as Pennsylvania’s chief law enforcement officer. Democrat Josh Shapiro, a Montgomery County commissioner, will be sworn in Tuesday as elected attorney general for a four-year term.

Beemer said it’s important to have prosecutors and agents focus on public corruption cases and praised Shapiro for appointing a chief integrity officer to advance ethics issues within the attorney general’s office.

Beemer filled the term of Kane, Waverly Township. She resigned last August after her conviction on nine criminal counts in Montgomery County Court for leaking grand jury material to a reporter and lying about it to another grand jury. She was sentenced to 10 to 23 months in prison, but remains free on bond while appealing the case.

Beemer will return to his previous job as state inspector general on Tuesday.

Eileen Granahan, Kane’s sister, continued as head of the unit in the attorney general’s office overseeing cases against child sex offenders.

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